Digimon - The Movie

Digimon - The Movie (1999)

  • 25% of critics liked it
    (40 reviews)

  • 60% of users liked it
    (20,169 ratings)

While some children spend their summer vacation playing ball or going to the beach, seven kids use their free time to help save the world in this feature-length animated adventure adapted from the popular television series. While attending summer camp, a group of kids playing with computers are… More

In Theaters
Oct 6, 2000 Wide
On DVD
Feb 6, 2001
20th Century Fox

Critic Reviews

  • Michael Rechtshaffen, Hollywood Reporter

    Overall, it's a pleasantly bearable experience.

  • Sean Means, Film.com

    Parents, if you don't want to compete with popular culture to raise your child ... this is where you draw the line in the sand.

  • Bruce Fretts, Entertainment Weekly

    With its migraine-inducing laser showdowns and puerile gags ... Digimon almost makes you nostalgic for the relative sophistication of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

  • Susan Stark, Detroit News

    As noisy, chaotic, cheesy and crassly commercial a product as has ever been put on the big screen.

  • Loren King, Boston Globe

    What is particularly unappealing and troublesome about the feature is that it is a video game barely disguised as a movie.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Spencer S


    For those who grew up in the 90's you were either all about the Pokemon or Digimon. Digimon, the more complicated and highly evolved form of digital monsters kept many entertained, and this darker movie adaptation was not only greatly anticipated and loved, but just a plain win.… More

  • Michael E


    though most adults on this whole website may not fully appreciate the movie its crazy plot off the wall violence and wierd creatures but remember it is a movie based on an anime kids show which i grew up with may i add, This show was the best show of the 90s and 2000s for all kids… More

  • Sanjaya &


    pretty good..

  • Bradley W


    No...

  • Dillon L


    It is better than Pokemon. Slightly better.

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